2001 Mary Whitehouse, British Activist 1996 Art Porter, saxophonist, dies at 35 1996 George Nicholas, cartoon animator, dies at 85 1996 Mohamed Amin, cameraman, photojournalist, known for photos of Ethiopian famine, fall of Idi Amin, wrote, 'Journey Through Pakistan', dies at 53 1996 Ralph Tubbs, architect, dies at 84 1996 Sayed Idries Shah, thinker, dies at 72 1996 Idries Shah, Indian Author 1995 Frank Hammond, tennis umpire, dies of ALS at 66 1995 Junior Walker, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 64 1995 Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63 1994 Eldero L D Williams, tenor saxophonist, dies at 70 1994 Erick Frederick Hawkins, U.S. dancer/wed to Martha Graham, dies at 85 1994 Tommy Boyce, U.S. songwriter (Be My Guest), commits suicide at 55 1994 William Donald Campbell, diarist/Ornithologist, dies at 89 1993 Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, sculptor, dies at 89 1993 Herve Bromberger, French director/screenwriter, dies at 75 1993 Tatiana Nikolajeva, Russian pianist (Bach), dies at 69 1992 Ray Acuff, country singer (Wahbash Cannonball), dies 1992 Rita Corday, actress (Dick Tracy vs Cueball), dies at 68 1992 Thelma Orloff, entertainer, dies of kidney failure at 76 1992 Roy Acuff, country musician, 'Hee Haw', dies 1991 Ken Uehara, actor (Honolulu-Tokyo), dies of heart failure at 82 1991 Klaus Kinski, actor (Android, Little Drummer Girl), dies at 65 1990 Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37 1990 Nguyen Van Tam, Prime Minister of Vietnam 1952 - 1953, dies 1990 Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar), dies 1990 Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74 1982 "Reverend" Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47 1980 Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54 1979 Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68 1978 Hanns Johst, German Playwright 1976 Andre Malraux, Berger, author (Conquerors)/Minister of Culture, dies 1974 Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54 1974 Pall Isolfsson, composer, dies at 81 1973 Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64 1973 Constance Talmadge, U.S. comedienne (Her Primitive Lover), dies at 75 1973 Paul Newlan, actor (Captain Grey-M Squad), dies 1973 Robert Ellis, actor (Curse of King Tut's Tomb), dies at 40 1973 Sessue Hayakawa, actor (Tokyo Joe), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 83 1972 Marie Wilson, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56 1971 Lisle Nagel, Australian cricket opening bowler (1932), dies 1970 Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60 1967 Freddie Martin, cricket WI batsman, (9 Tests 486 runs 1 century), dies 1965 Franc Debenham, Australian geographer/geologer, dies at 81 1962 Gloria Gordon, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81 1962 Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62 1956 Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61 1952 Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, dies at 59 1952 Albert van Raalte, conductor, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, dies at 62 1949 Gustav Radbruch, German Minister of Justice, dies 1948 Stanner E V Taylor, U.S. director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71 1948 Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 63 1946 Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered 1940 Catherina van Rennes, composer, dies at 82 1938 August TC Kiehl, actor (Hope of Blessing), dies at 84 1937 Louis Victor Saar, composer, dies at 68 1934 Albert Funke Kuppes, political cartoonist, dies 1932 Percy Pitt, composer, dies at 63 1931 Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist, dies 1927 S Przybyszewski, writer, dies 1926 Frederic Ayers, composer, dies at 50 1920 Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla", dies 1916 Eduard Napravnik, composer, dies at 77 1914 Elbrige Gerry, Vice President (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70 1910 Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed 1902 Walter Reed, U.S. bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies 1890 Willem III, King of Netherland (1849-1890), dies at 73 1872 Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), U.S. poet/Comanche chief, dies 1865 Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer, dies at 41 1865 Rene E de Russy, West Indian/US Brigadier-General, dies at about 75 1853 Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer, dies at 67 1853 Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer, dies at 67 1848 Alfred Julius Becher, composer, dies at 45 1814 Elbridge Gerry, U.S. merchant and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 70 1787 Anton Schweitzer, composer, dies at 52 1752 Conrad Michael Schneider, composer, dies at 79 1750 Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55 1709 Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch/English earl of Portland, dies at 60 1613 Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, dies at 64 1585 Thomas Tallis, composer, dies 1558 Charles, earl of Lalaing/land guardian of the Netherlands, dies at 52 1499 Perkin Warbeck, Flemish sailor, hanged 1457 Ladislaus V Posthumus, king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 17 1407 Louis, duke of Orleans, murdered 1249 Ajjoeb, sultan of Egypt, dies 615 Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies
